Thomas Wyatt Flashcards
Which King did Wyatt serve?
Henry VIII
In what way do Wyatt’s sonnets most frequently differ, in terms of form, from Petrarch?
Ending with a rhyming couplet.
What occurs between the octave and the sestet in a sonnet?
A volta (eg. A turn)
Who was the female love in Petrarch’s sonnets?
Laura
How did Petrarch’s religion impact his view of love?
Saw love as spiritually uplifting, a way to understand God better.
However, it was also a conflicted state of being.
Wyatt’s poem, ‘My Galley’, is a translation of which Petrarchan poem?
Rima 189
It removes Classical references.
Why was Wyatt imprisoned?
Suspected of being one of Anne Boylen’s lovers.
And, later, having said something against the King.
Circa Reyna tonat means what?
He [Jupiter] thunders around thrones
This is how Wyatt saw the courts
What poem is Circa Regna Tonat from?
Wyatt’s ‘Who list his wealth and ease retain’
What phrase does Wyatt’s quote that means ‘he thunders around thrones’?
Circa regna tonat
What is the treason act, brought in by Henry VIII?
It is illegal not just to attempt to harm the King, but to wish, imagine or desire harm upon the King.
Henry VIII’s court was known as…
The Henrician court
Poetry, for Wyatt, was about more than expressing himself. What else was it about?
Fashion. As a member of the court he had to be fashionable. It is circulated within elite court circles.
What kind of education did Wyatt have?
A humanist education.
What does the Norton intro to Wyatt say about his poetry.
It is a ‘performance’, a ‘game of poetic self-display’.
